Ning Feng is recognised internationally as an artist of great lyricism, innate musicality and stunning virtuosity. He performs across the globe with major orchestras and conductors, and in recital and chamber concerts in some of the most important international series and festivals. The Washington Post has described him as “a wonderful player with a creamy, easy tone and an emotional honesty” and BBC Music Magazine said of a recent recording “silvery tonal purity, immaculate intonation and gently beguiling musicality”.

Ning Feng has toured Europe, Asia and Australia with Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and has been the soloist on tours of China with many orchestras including the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, with whom he has performed several times in Budapest, with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester and Lawrence Foster, and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he performs regularly. He has played with the Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Hallé, New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, National Symphony (Washington), Minnesota, Helsinki Philharmonic, Bilbao Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Vienna Radio and Melbourne Symphony orchestras amongst others and in 22/23 made his debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Gianandrea Noseda, Marin Alsop, Tugan Sokhiev, Vassily Petrenko, Long Yu, LÜ Jia, Muhai Tang, Guoyong Zhang, Yang Yang, Xincao Li, Yi Zhang, Daye Lin, Yi Huang and etc.

In China, Ning Feng is held in the highest regard, appearing regularly with all the major orchestras, visiting international orchestras and in recital. In 20/21 he was the Artist-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. In 22/23 he returned with collaborations with 9 different orchestras including China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, Hangzhou Philharmonic and etc. and opened the season for Qingdao Symphony and Xi’an Symphony. He conducted and played as soloist on the concert with Guangzhou Symphony.

Ning performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall where he recently performed the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach, live-streamed on YouTube. He has performed many times at Kissinger Sommer Festival, and has collaborated with artists including Edgar Moreau, Daniel Müller-Schott, Nicholas Angelich and Igor Levit. In 22/23 he tours Italy with a solo Paganini programme.

Ning Feng records for Channel Classics and his most recent album ‘Brahms Violin Sonatas’ with pianist Zee Zee was released in February 2023. His recording of Bach’s complete solo works for violin was hailed by Gramophone as “unlike anyone else’s… it’s the illusion of a freewheeling conversation projected from within that held me captive." His discography also includes concerti by Elgar, Finzi, Tchaikovsky, Bruch (Scottish Fantasy), works for violin and orchestra by Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and Bizet/Waxman, and with the Dragon Quartet works by Schubert, Dvořák, Borodin, Shostakovich and Weinberg.

Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with Weimin Hu, the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Hu Kun, where he was the first student ever to be awarded 100% for his final recital. He was awarded as the Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM), which is an honor limited to 300 former Academy students who have distinguished themselves within the music profession. The recipient of prizes at the Hanover International, Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin International violin competitions, Ning Feng was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), and in 2006 won first prize in the International Paganini Competition.

Ning Feng plays the 1710 Stradivari violin known as the ‘Vieuxtemps Hauser’, by kind arrangement with Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, and plays on strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.

He lives in Berlin and is a Violin Professor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) and also holds the position of International Chair of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In China he serves as the Artistic Director of Chamber Music Academy of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and the Deputy Dean of Violin Research Institute of Sichuan Conservatory of Music.